Snoop Dogg brawl, NCAA upsets, NFL roundup

🎵 And the beat goes on, yeah. Every little thing is gonna be alright. Ha ha, Jads, L.A. Episode 10. Another glorious week in the world of football. Big win for my squad. Over Snoop D-O-double G, Posse. Turned it into a Pier 6 brawl. Great shakeup in NCAA football. Top 10 teams falling everywhere. Another great Saturday. College football has hit their stride. Another maddening... Not as in John Madden, as in driving you crazy. Week in the NFL. Start off with my game. Huge rivalry game versus the Brahmers of Diamond Bar. Which, as I mentioned last weekend before, Snoop Dogg's son, whom I will not refer to by name, plays in that squad. Great receiver, great player. Gameplay was simple. Ground and pound. Unbalanced. Transformations come right at him. Play action. Hit him over the top. Play action. Bootleg. Work to perfection. 34-20. Unfortunately, what will be written about in this game, and what will be talked about in this game, is the game got called at about three minutes left in the fourth quarter because of a fight. Brawl. Snoop Dogg. Snoop Dogg. His son was getting frustrated. We were physical with him all night. End of the game, about three minutes left. We're up by 14. They got the ball. They're moving it. A little bit of pushing and shoving after the play. Our kid instigated it, I think. I'm not afraid to say it. But they escalated. As soon as the push happened, we got our kid back in the huddle. And Snoop Pop throws a haymaker to the back of the cornerback's head who had been keeping him in check all night. It was captured on Fox Sports West. Captured on film. Now, here's the deal. All of a sudden, you go looking for it on the internet. It was up there Friday night. It was off by Saturday morning. All traces of any of the video evidence was off by Saturday morning. And it got ugly. It happened on their sideline. Their whole team came on the field. A couple of our kids wanted to be tough. And I understand, you know, you see one of your teammates getting lynched. The natural, incorrect reaction is to react. A couple of kids ran across the sideline. Got ugly. Sheriffs. A couple parents wanted to get involved. Jump in. But, you know, boys will be boys. Nothing really bad happened. But they end up calling the game. Three minutes left. I'm assuming we won. We won in my mind. Shit. It was 34-20. Had them beat. Now, here's the deal. Criminal charges? Possibly. I mean, Snoop Pop turned around and threw a haymaker. You know, I'm sure he's a good kid. I guess. But, shoot. You know, you think he's probably got a lot of pressure on him. Not just to succeed as an athlete. But to succeed as a thug. If your dad is a known gangster, Snoop father, godfather of the gangster world. You would think the kid's got some innate pressure on him to represent himself as a thug. Even if he may not be. Look at the school he goes to. Diamond Bar High. It's a quiet community. No, it's funny. I'll get into it. I'll get into it a little bit here. That community, I talked about it before. That community is primarily Asian and white. And they got about six or seven athletes. How do I say that without sounding, you know, without coming off the wrong way. That played for Snoop Zilla and his league. So these kids, he's stacking the team in this high school day and age. Where everybody, every high school kid has representation. Picks and choose what schools they go to. They're all following Snoop. So they got some players. And one of those aforementioned athletes, before the game started, came over, crossed the 50, which is a no-no. During warm-ups, everybody who knows anything about football knows that. Came over and started flashing signs. Were they gang signs? I don't know. I don't know. I grew up in suburban Boston. We didn't have gangs. People weren't throwing up signs. Who knows what it meant. But he was definitely throwing something up that looked thuggish, if you will. And he wants to start going down. He was throwing bombs. But the kid, he was hitting the ribs. So he's smart. These kids are getting smarter nowadays. They're not throwing the punches in the helmet. Although Snoop popped through a punch in the helmet. You realize you're breaking your hand. That doesn't do anything. If damage is your intention, which I would assume it is. But great win. 3-0 in league. 6-1 overall. And we're on a roll. See what happens. See if we can win out 9-1. Go to playoffs and roll. Before we get into NCAA, though, I want to get my boy Slush. Slush for dead out in Nashville, New Hampshire. I want to see if we can get him. I want to see if we can get him on the line. For a segment I want to call Cheap Yards in Nashua. Run that by him. See if he likes that name. We're going to talk NCAA football. He's got something he wants to say. Particularly about Johnny Manziel. And some of the other happenings in the league. In the league. NCAA. Before we get him on the phone, though, I've got a couple things I want to talk about. About grambling. Players at Grambling University have essentially boycotted what's going on. They're saying that. They're saying they don't have the facilities and they're not being supported. Of course, it's a Louisiana State school. Bobby Jingle turned down stimulus money. I guess they've been making draconian, from what I read, cuts to Grambling University. Players decide they don't want to play anymore. I don't know if that's the way to do it. I don't know if that's the way to go about continuing the season by quitting. But that's what they're doing. They say they're complaining about bus rides, over 15-hour bus rides. They're saying there's mold in the facilities. They're saying there's been massive cutbacks to training table, which is essentially their cafeteria. And they're refusing to play. Doug Williams, Redskin quarterback, Super Bowl winning quarterback, was their coach. They fired him in the middle of the year. They brought in a guy, one of the assistant coaches, who... I guess they can't stand. So they're boycotting. I don't know if that's the way to go. I don't know if quitting is the way to go. I don't think that really proves anything to anybody. But what else are you going to do? Battle at Bristol. Somebody's been listening to Hideyards LA. They just confirmed this week there will be a battle at Bristol. Which is the speed track, the NASCAR track. They're going to try to get 160,000 people in. Tennessee versus Virginia Tech next year. Each team will be making $4 million a piece. And that's the motto I talked about. Paying these teams to come out and play each other. Even though Tennessee, Virginia Tech, talk about the last five years, two perennial underachievers. Let's talk more NCAA football with Slush Fredette in Nashua, which I call Cheap Yards in Nashua. How you doing, Slush? We are in every one of them, coach. How you doing? I'm all right. I'm all right. Oh, man. Before we get into NCAA, got to get your fresh takes on what happened today when the Patriot game. Well, it's, I mean, the offense is clearly, I mean, the defense is clearly upgraded. They keep getting the ball back. The offense needs to do something with it. Why is Blount sitting on the sideline all the time? That's what I want to know. Why is who sitting on the sideline? Blount. Blount. Whatever. Freaking LeGarrette Blount. The guy that has returning kicks who obviously can't return kicks. And he's a grinder and he gets no touches. Well, play calling was certainly part of the problem today. I would agree with that. I mean, you can't do the same thing three series in a row and, you know, have it turn out the same way and expect something to work out better for you. So, when you forfeit the third quarter of every game, not much is going to happen. I also feel like, I mean, obviously the weapons aren't there, but I kind of feel like we're starting to see the decline of Brady here. He hasn't looked well. He's always struggled on the deep ball. That's never been his strength. But now he's missing all over the place. I know it. I know it. That is an inevitability. I still think he has something in the tank. But, yeah, I do think we're starting to see the inevitable decline that happens to every great player. I mean, typically, even his decision making is enough to make him, you know, still a guy that you want. I mean, I definitely want him. I'd say I'd still put him in the top five, top six, top seven guys in the league. But, man, I don't know if it's confidence a shock or his arms getting rubbery or what, but he's missing throws. He just should. He should not and cannot miss. I know it. And how about Gronkowski? He should have. I don't care if it was one-handed. He should have made that catch to freaking go in the end zone and win that game. He put the ball right on him. He's going to get his other arm up or he refused to. I don't know what happened there. It's one of those things where his stat line looked really good if you looked at it, but you still felt like he wasn't quite himself. I think he would have beat a lot of that coverage where there was one-on-one coverage in those seam routes. Usually he beats that. So, I don't know. It's still a weapon we didn't have before. It's good to have him back. But I feel like we missed Vereen quite a bit, too. I mean, they're still putting some pieces together. So, the whole game plan was to weather the storm. We knew it wasn't going to look like that year's pass or he'll lose some games. So, I still think we're sitting pretty well. It looks like pretty much any team can compete with any team on any week now, particularly in our division. So, I don't like the divisional loss. But I think if we hang in tight, start getting some guys back. Gronk starts to look a little more like himself. And Brady gets his shit together. And the offensive line pulls it together. Man, they're having a bad season. I know it. I know it. And we'll do it. To give credit to all the, you know, I don't think the Jets are that bad. And I think their defense is pretty good. Up front, they're pretty good. But, yeah, the old line, it seems like, man, I don't know. They're no consistent run game. It seems like guys are on top of Brady real quickly. I don't get it. I think there's some limitations on the play calls we can call with those guys. Because, I mean, I was looking when they showed the interception he threw when he was targeting Gronk. I mean, it was a bad decision to make a death throw. But everyone else was covered. Just to me, they were blanketed. So, I think that was probably the most open guy. I think sometimes those guys struggle to get open. But it seems like Dobson, I don't know if he's going to catch it when he gets there. But at least twice he had guys beat deep. And Brady just cannot deliver that ball, man. If it's a deep ball, it's a low percentage pass for them. Yeah. Well, what are you going to do? Five and two still, you know, could have put, you know, really could have almost put the division away today. To be honest with you. It would have been. It was a step backwards, too. I mean, especially, you know, even the same. That was a great win against New Orleans. But really, we could have put our throat on their necks in the second, third quarter. Just like we could have done today. Why would you put your throat on someone's neck? I got you. I know. We should have stomped them out when we had a chance. But that's Patriot football. Shit, you've been watching them forever. The last 15 years, they always look like they're just about to put a team away. And they always let them back in and make the game interesting. It feels like they let the foot off the gas. Or are they just making bad decisions? I mean. You know, those are the last two weeks we could have done that. Those games could have been over by the third quarter. And instead, you know, we were lucky to win one of the two. Hey, you want to talk Johnny football? You want to talk Manziel? You want to come out here and talk blasphemy about Johnny football? I like Johnny football as much as the next guy. I think he's an electric player. And, you know, I tune in to watch an A&M game every week. But I just feel like it's not going to translate to the pros. He does some things, some fundamentals that everybody knows. You're not supposed to do. And I think he'll pay for it in the pros. I think. He rolls out, throws across his body. And when he scrambles, he turns his back to the line of scrimmage. That's the stuff that we yell at Romo for. That's the stuff that sunk Favre. And he gets, you know, he gets his balls washed every time he tries it. I feel like if he didn't have Evans bailing him out on half these plays, his stat line should look a little different. Evans is a beast. But, look, Johnny Manziel has the top three passing yardage games in SEC history. Already. He does take chances. He is a bit of a gunslinger. My thing with him is I don't know if he'll be able to stay healthy. He's got a slight frame. And it seems like every game, well, at least the last two weeks, it looked like he was done for the game. And he came back in. I don't know if he just got a little flab for the dramatics or what. But it just seems like he takes a pounding. However, there is no way, at least as a backup quarterback, as a spark plug, there is no way that guy doesn't. He's going to succeed in the NFL at some point. Maybe not right away. Maybe not as a long-term franchise guy. But at some point, he's going to come in and make some team season very interesting. Well, if there's a quarterback class coming out, you know, I mean, look at all the quarterbacks. Let's just say they were all eligible. Let's just say they were all coming out. Mariota from Oregon, famous Jameis. They were all coming out. Was Manziel the guy you'd want to build your NFL team around? Well, like I've said before, there are five or six franchise guys. I'm sold on. I'm sold on Jameis Winston. And I'm sold on Teddy Bridgewater, even though that team lost. Look it. I don't think you can go wrong with any of them. If you're a team like Minnesota and Johnny Manziel sitting there, and you're going to be rolling with Josh Freeman, maybe, who's not even under contract, you go out and get them. You know, I think there'll be five. I think there'll be five or six guys taking in the first-round quarterbacks this year. And they're all. I think they're going to change the league. They're definitely talented. I mean, to me, and maybe I'm a little biased here, but I think Mariota should be the one getting the. I think Mariota should be the one getting the look for the Heisman. As far as I know, he's yet to throw an interception. He definitely takes your shots downfield. He gets it done with his legs, too. I think he's just a little more poised back there than a lot of these other guys. I think Mariota's got the Heisman right now. I think it's his to lose. Yeah. Although I think Winston is coming up fast because he's a media darling. He's composed. I think Florida State is legit. I would cream myself if I saw an Oregon-Florida State championship, national championship game. Yeah. I guess I feel like, you know, I just feel like, I mean, to the eye test, for me, Alabama is still the best team in the country. You think so? As far as the eye test goes. But as far as the people that I'm setting my DVR for, that I'm setting my recordings for, Oregon's on that every week, and Johnny Manziel's on that every week. Absolutely. Absolutely. Have you had a chance to watch Baylor play? I finally got a chance to watch him. No, I have not. Oh, they are legitimate. Missouri is fun to watch. It's a great college football season. As always. It's been a great season. Absolutely. And they hit this product. I feel like maybe some of the, you know, SEC dominance, I mean, I think that's what I'm really rooting for. I'm rooting for someone to come on upstate just so I can just get, I'm sick of hearing it. I mean, I can appreciate it's big-time football, but I'm really looking for some other teams to come up. And I just, I love the upset, you know, and if that's what it takes, I want some of these guys to get some losses. You know, I'm just dying to see Alabama loss here. There's no, there's just no way, and even though I can't, said a couple of weeks ago, I think Alabama's going to win. I just don't think someone's going to get them. Someone's going to catch them. They've had too much of a stretch of dominance. Someone's going to get them, whether it be Oregon or Florida State, or even if they have to play, you know, Texas A&M again in the SEC championship, someone's going to get them. Even Auburn's really good. I don't know if you watch them play. A&M's defense is atrocious, though. I think as a team, you know, I think Manziel kind of is obligated to put on those offensive numbers. I think that's a bad defense. I think that's a bad defense. Same thing with Georgia. Georgia's a talented team this year. Starting out, I used to love watching them. Of course, they've been, you know, just plagued with injuries now, but that was a bad defense. They had to score 40 points every week because they were going to give up 35. Oh, yeah. Some of the defenses. Oregon, everyone talks offense, but that defense is there. They force turnovers, and they get to the quarterback. As is Florida State. Those are the two most impressive teams to me right now, Oregon and Florida State, with Bama always being Bama. But I think those are the two teams. I mean, they got it all. Their defenses are good. Quarterbacks that make plays. I don't know. Clemson getting blown out. Unreal. Clemson's overrated, Coach. Clemson's overrated. Todd Ball's overrated. Todd's all overrated. Todd Boyd? Yeah. Todd Boyd, rather. I mean, he's another guy where you just watch him long enough, and you see the fundamentals break down. I'm yet to see that guy step up into a pocket. It's all he drops back right into the bookends, or he rolls out to the outside. He has all this room to step up and give himself some time. I mean, he's just. He just seems to be reluctant to do it. I just. I feel like sometimes some of these guys are so talented, they need some coaching, too, and they're not getting it. Yeah. Todd Boyd, I'm not sold on 100%. I'm not sold 100% on Hundley from UCLA. I don't know if you watch them get owned by Stanford. I love Stanford. Stanford pounds the pill, kid. They run the rock and play action and play good defense, and that's a recipe for a win. And it always will be, and it still is. That's who upended Oregon last year. But they had. They're issues with Utah, so we'll see what happens there. Who knows. Any other games? Anything else on your hot plate in Nashua? That's pretty much it, Coach. Just taking in the rest of this NFL week. Hey, what's going on? I'm a major player in some pools this year, man. Some big money pools. I'm in second place out of 45. I'm going to get my eye on that prize. You know what I mean? What's going on in Denver right now? Denver Indy. Indy is winning. They're up by five at halftime. Oh, that would be great. I'm so sick of the man bullshit. It's all coming. It's pressure on Manning. It's pressure on Manning. There's been two strip sacks already. Really? Two strip sack fumbles? Wow. One was for a safety. Oh, man. It's the only problem with doing this show at 7 o'clock. And I think next week I might cancel. I've got to watch the Red Sox, which we could spend a whole other hour talking about that. That's right. It's another show, right? Yeah. Yeah. Hey, thanks for the takes in Nashua. We'll talk to you soon. Keep up the great work. Love the show, guys. All right. Thank you, sir. Bye-bye. Shake-ups in college football. How many teams lost this week that were previously undefeated or in the top ten? Let's count them. Let me see. We had Clemson go down, obviously. Who else did we have? We had Georgia getting completely knocked out of any type of national champion. LSU, six losing. Man, I love LSU. If I come back in my next life, I want to play for Les Miles. Les Miles is shot, vaulted to the top of my favorite coaches to listen to talk. This past Columbus Day, was it this Monday or the Monday before? I can't even keep track of these. We didn't have it off. So he comes out in his press conference like, First of all, I'd like to wish happy Columbus Day to all those travelers. And all those that know or are of Italian descent. This is your day. It's not St. Patrick's Day. That's another day. This is your day. So I wanted to say that. And I think he was dead serious. I don't know. I don't know if the guy is saying things tongue-in-cheek or what. But with their loss, with their loss yesterday, he comes out and he's like, I did a piss-poor job preparing these boys. Should have stayed patient. Run the ball. Run the ball. Run the ball. Run the ball. Run the ball. Run the ball. Run the ball. Run the ball. Run the ball. Run the ball. Run the ball. Run the ball. Run the ball. Run the ball. Run the ball. Run the ball. Run the ball. Run the ball. Run the ball. Which is what I say all the time. And they do. LSU has done a good job of staying patient and grinding people out. Now this year they get Cam Cameron, this pro background, trying to get cute. But they drop another one, virtually eliminating them from any type of national championship aspirations. Vanderbilt, my boy Ricky Ronnie, Sean Spencer, two good friends of mine, getting the upset. Upset win over Georgia. We talked about it a little bit. Georgia just decimated by injuries. So what? Huge win by Vanderbilt. Beating Georgia at home. I texted Ricky. I'm going to try to get Ricky Ronnie on the show. He was Josh Freeman's quarterback coach at Kansas State as well. I think that'll be an interesting take, see what he has to say about all this. Why all of a sudden Notre Dame and USC is an afterthought? You got the two most storied franchises in college football. One of the greatest rivalries in college football. And no doubt about it, the teams with the two best fight songs with the bands. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And the Notre Dame song as well. Nobody dislikes Notre Dame's fight song. 14-10. Zero points scored in the second half between the two teams. Oh, vey. ESPN, the necessary evil that it is, gave no love to that game. They didn't even talk about it. I had to watch the Red Sox course, unfortunately. Tried to wean myself off baseball, but, you know, game six of the ALCS. And they had about 15 beers. So I stayed up and watched all the highlight shows. They didn't even talk about USC, Notre Dame, one time. My, have they fallen. Spent a lot of time jocking Florida State. Deservedly so. Florida State showing that they are for real. Putting down the thump on Clemson. 51-14. This Jimbo Fisher, famous Jameis Winston, quarterback-coach relationship. Almost brings a teary eye. Listen to those guys talking after the game. My God. They are a legitimate threat. As long as they can keep him around. I mean, Winston. And play defense like they do. They will be national championship contenders. Not only this year, but next year as well. But Winston's a guy to me like Clowney that should just play this year. Work out with an agent all next year. Then come out for the draft. He'd be a fool not to take him in the top five. Top five pick. Without question. Oregon 62. Washington State 38. Quarterback for Washington State, Conor Holliday, ended up setting an FBS. Still like to call it Division. One pass attempt record. He threw 89 pass attempts at 58 completions. Broke Drew Brees' record. Shattered it. Oregon coaches were calling him out. Saying they were throwing too much at the end of the game. Screw it. Fuck it. Let it fly. Never know what's going to happen. You can score quickly. Akron getting their first win with Jim Trestle helping out. The director of strategic development. Whatever the hell he is. Finally getting a win. 24-17 over Miami over Ohio. Ohio used to be a hotbed of football. Well, I guess you could still say that, yeah. Got Ohio State who's undefeated. But Akron. Hey, good for them. Finally getting a win. Want to finish up on the college game. What else do I have to talk about? Huh. This is a good one. This guy, Meteor. Receiver, Oklahoma. He's caught exposing himself on campus. Several women exposed himself. Ended up throwing off the team. That's right. I never understood those guys. I pulled into a Dunkin' Donuts parking lot once. I saw a guy whacking it. I didn't know what to react. How do you react to something like that? Is that yelling at him? Give him his privacy? I don't know. I was about 18. I think we giggled like schoolgirls and ran. Ran inside and got some kind of glazed donut and some kind of Dunkin' cappuccino. How about Bill Murray on college game day? Slamming Lee Corso to the ground. Lee Corso came out in his Seminole, you know, with his mascot pics. Bill Murray. How great of a person is Bill Murray? He just seems like he's got it all figured out as far as having fun. Slammed Corso to the ground and threw the spear out into the crowd. Fantastic. I don't think Clemson ever really... That was probably the highlight of Clemson Saturday. Oregon State. Oh, we got a call. Go ahead. Hey, coach. This is Brendan in Connecticut. Hey, Brendan. How you doing? I'm good. How are you? I'm all right. What do you want to talk about? I'm listening intently to Hot Yachts in L.A. Yeah. I was just letting some D2 power in Stonehill upset UNH this weekend. Yeah. Yeah. University of New Haven, Stonehill Skyhawks, excuse me, beating the University of New Haven. Big upset. What was the score? 29. 29 what? 29-26. Wow. What does that put the Chiefs in? I think they're like 5-2 right now. I believe you're correct, yes. Wow, you are good. What is the deal? Hey, professional guy. What is the deal with New Haven? I didn't even know they brought... When did they bring back football? Probably five years ago. Did they really? They used to be a powerhouse. They still are. They made the D2 playoffs. Sure. Oh, that is a huge win for the Skyhawks. I keep saying Chieftains. Huh. I thought, you know, I thought you wanted to in that region. Yeah. I hear you're breaking up. Yeah. Hey, did you still watch the Pats game today? I did. When did they pull out that rule? That was the worst call I've ever seen. As the announcer said, in the years they've had that rule, I don't think it's ever been called once. I think this is the first year, but the guy just going forward. What the fuck they wanted to do? Stop? I guess they said, you know, it would be a low motive. Huh. And still, you know, I don't want to belabor the point. Hey, look, I wish this... I should change it to hardballs LA right now to get some Red Sox talking. You were at the Grand Slam game last Sunday? I was. Yeah, it was amazing. And I'm going to game two of the World Series on Thursday. How much did that cost you? Nothing. Nothing? You're getting free tickets? Mm-hmm. Living the high life, kid. Living the high life. Not too bad. Yeah. Not too bad, yeah. Couldn't hear you. Dead air. Hey, if you can hear me, if you can hear me, Brendan, we'll talk soon. Thanks for the call. Let's get in the NFL. Man, time flies. Let's get in the NFL because there's a few things I want to talk about. Here's something I am intrigued by. Aaron Foster, there's a company called Phantax Holdings. Basically, what they're doing is they're giving Aaron Foster, running back from the Houston Texans, they're giving Aaron Foster a chance to play. They're giving Aaron Foster a chance to play. They're giving Aaron Foster a chance to play. They're giving Aaron Foster a chance to play. They're giving him $10 million in exchange for 20% of all future earnings. What they're going to do is they're going to turn around and they're going to sell stock. Futures, like futures commodities in Aaron Foster and letting people buy this share of all of Aaron Foster's future earnings for a one-time $10 million payment. Then they're going to trade these stocks, if you will, like the commodities. If you will, like the commodities. So basically, if Aaron Foster makes more than $50 million in his career, and I don't know when it's till, what the window is, if he makes that much money, the investors are going to start making more money off that, if that makes sense, because he needs to make $10 million to cover their holdings. Now, I don't know if Phantax is really doing a good job by taking a 28-year-old running back who has tons of mileage on him, but think about the possibilities of all these other guys. What if you take a percentage of all these guys and you take a percentage of Shane, not Shane, Floyd Mayweather's earnings? So say some company comes in and says, hey, Floyd, we're going to give you $20 million for 20% of your future earnings the rest of the way. It's intriguing. It could change everything. Because I think on a one-off, people will buy their favorite players, if that makes sense. It gives them some kind of tangible fantasy component to it. I don't know. So we'll see how it works. We'll see how it works. Phantax Holdings. And they're doing this right now. Aaron Foster, who got hurt today, by the way, which, you know, again, I don't know if a running back in his late 20s is really the guy to bust this out with, but we'll see how that goes. Irving Fryer, a favorite on this program. For those of you who have been with us, I have seen the praises of Irving Fryer and how he, got back on the righteous path after falling off and had a great NFL career. Now he's a pastor of a church and a head coach at Robbinsville High School in New Jersey. Irving decided with his moms, with his 75-year-old moms, they conspired together to steal $690,000 in mortgage fraud. My girlfriend works in the mortgage business and she says this is a legitimate fraud that people pull off. People actually get away with this. They go out and they take, they take out loans back to back to back and, you know, get from different banks and they don't, other banks don't know about these loans. So the banks give them up because I guess there's a little period there, grace period, where nobody knows if someone else is lending them money. So they go out and they make these loans and then people get and collect $700,000 and just turn around and default on the loan. All five of them. And I guess people have gotten away with it. Apparently Irving didn't get away. They didn't get away with it. Ain't a thing. I spent time in zeros and ones on singing the praises of Irving Fryer. How he turned his life around. This goes to show nobody's ever born round and die square. But then the cat is in the kitten. Apple doesn't fall far from the tree. As proven this weekend by Snoop Pop. Irving couldn't change his stripes. It's too bad. Shame. He's looking at serious jail time. Bum Phillips. Passing away. All Andrew Bum Phillips. Legendary coach of the Houston Oilers. In an NFL Films star back in the day. Go ahead and run it. Go ahead and run it from Boruski with his big Stetson cowboy hat and his baby blue cowboy boots. That's a bygone era. That'll never happen again. All these coaches nowadays. They're so stiff. No personality anymore. How many NFL head coaches can you think of with legitimate personality? Maybe Jim Harbaugh is one even though he seems like a legitimate weirdo. But all these guys are so stiff shirted. College coaches as well. Mike Leach is a little different but end of days. Personality in the NFL. The No Fun League. Bum Phillips. Pass away at age 90. Don't make them like that anymore. Gronkowski headlines. We've talked enough Patriots as it is. And Dominick and Sue find $31,000 for a hit on Brandon Whedon which is actually a great play. You get penalized for a perfect hit. It's like baseball unfortunately. Like I was talking about earlier. You have to watch these playoffs. Pitchers will get penalized for making perfect plays. Perfect pitch. And Dominick and Sue got fined $31,000 for making a perfect play. That's got to stop. Round the league today. Atlanta 31. Tampa Bay 23. My Super Bowl pick Atlanta. Oh, hypotheticals. Why am I even dealing in hypotheticals? Super Bowl pick Atlanta. 18 carries for 18 yards. Beat Tampa Bay. Tampa Bay. Falls to 0-6. Tampa Bay ends up 2-14. Maybe 1-15. Second pick overall. Pray they get Teddy Bridgewater. Fire Shiano. And bring in Charlie Strong and draft Teddy Bridgewater off of the farm to whoever's got the number one pick. Pick Bridgewater and Charlie Strong. You've made yourself instantly relevant again. Dallas 17 against the revolutionary Philadelphia Eagles. Chip Kelly and the Revolution. That lasted a half. They got Rick Riley's of the world. Got Rick Riley chubby for a half. 17-3. Good for Monty Kiffin. And I never like it when the Cowboys win, but good for Monty Kiffin. A professional fucking coach. Everybody give him shit. You can't stop the spread. Like it's a math problem. Like Monty Kiffin's on the board. Trying to feel. This spread, this spread, this spread. It doesn't work like that. It's players in execution. Putting players in right spots. You got the right players. You got the right players. Put them in the right spots so the team doesn't execute. You can shut them down. Here, here, Monty Kiffin. Matt Barkley, USC's own, comes in. Promptly throws three picks. Let's see if Matt Barkley can... I like Barkley. I think he's solid. I think he's a step down from these quarterbacks that you're going to see coming out. Jameis Winston's, Teddy Bridgewater's, Johnny Manziel's, Marcus Mariota. And the kid from Oregon State. Segue. Let me dive into the twit bag then. Coach, from Simeo, at Simeo, S-Y-M-E-O, Simeo. How come no love in the national media for Mannion and Cook's quarterback receiver combination in Oregon State, my words, and company are doing at Oregon State right now? That's a fair question. It's a good question. They're tearing it up right now. Mannion has something like... I don't know if he's throwing... He has at least 370 yards in all games this year. Leading the nation in total offense, passing yards and TDs. Cook's receiver, Brandon Cook's, leading the nation in receptions, yards, reception TDs. They are setting records in the NCAA. You don't hear a word about them on the mothership. It's a fair point. I don't know. You would think because Oregon's got so much pop, Oregon State, to give a natural foil, would get some residual love and deserved love, but they're not. I think the one thing that might have knocked them down a little bit is they lost their first game of the year to Eastern Washington, who's a 1AA team. They lost 49-46 to Eastern Washington, first game of the year. That might have took the window out of their sails, the starch out of their shirt, but you're right. You would think they'd be getting some kind of love. Getting buried, though. Nobody's talking about them. Great point. See how they end up. They could make some serious noise at the end of the year in the Pac-12 championship. Shoot, if they got one loss, one non-league game loss, they could end up doing something. Threw me off. Back to the NFL. Let me pull my head out of the twit bag for a second. Back to the NFL. San Diego, 24. Jacksonville, 6. San Diego? Hey, Phillip Ribbers is playing all right. I still think they're pretenders. I don't think they're going to do anything. Jacksonville. I've spent way too much time talking about them. It was an embarrassing game. They're just going to swallow it. Forget it. Just come out and trick play the rest of the year. Enough Jacksonville. Cincinnati with a big win. 5-2 Cincinnati. Another team I've seen the praises of. I'm like, that's a real bold statement. They're supremely talented defensively. Beat Detroit today, 27-24. Good win for them. Keeps them relevant. Carolina, 30. St. Louis Rams, 15. Cam Newton, 15-17. Last two games, he's 35-43. Cam Newton is the real deal. Like Gus Malzahn was saying when I was watching that game, talking about coaching against Johnnie. He said, look, Cam Newton, Johnnie Manziel are two of the greatest college players to ever play. I got a lot of respect for Gus Malzahn. High school coach. Guy that went through the chainsaw bracket. He's not the son of a GM. He's not the son of a coach. Well, maybe he is. Not the son of an NFL coach anyway. Guy that pulled himself out of the chainsaw bracket and ended up taking this Auburn team and turning them around because they were god-awful last year. He speaks volumes of Gene Chizik. Guy that won a national title, fired, what, two years later? But it's very easy that Gus Malzahn was the brains behind the whole program. Look, like I say, if you're not calling one side of the ball the other, you ain't doing shit. I don't care. Oh, he's managing the game. Fuck that. You're not doing anything. The play caller determines the game. It's both sides of the ball. Plays win games. It's not freaking motivational speeches. It's not guys roaming around the sideline. I watched that NFL sound effects TV show on the NFL network. Rob Chizinski, head coach at Cleveland, just walking around the sideline. Let's go. Come on. That's all anybody ever says anymore. Let's go. Let's go. That's all the guy did. Whole game. Yeah, he's qualified NFL. Well, maybe he is qualified, but he ain't doing anything. I mean, it's the play caller. Means everything in pro football game. It means everything at every level. Well, part of me is glad I'm not watching the Indianapolis-Denver game, but the buildup was just too much. Jim Irsay, who I sang the praises of on this very program last week. Jim Irsay coming out and saying we've changed our model a little bit because we want to be a better team. Wanted more than one Super Bowl. I think that's kind of backward. Look, I understand you want to win multiple Super Bowls, but they did get their one. And they were a factor every year. Look at the Patriots. We're a great football team. The Ravens have been a great football team for the last 10 years. I mean, Indy won one, and then they lost to a great Saints team. So I don't know what that's a shot at. You know, some people are saying Irsay's coming out and trying to get in Peyton's head. I don't really think that. I think that's all media speak. I think when the helmet goes on and things start happening on the field, I don't think guys think of that stuff. It's like I got in a disagreement with one of my co-working coaches. He says, oh, we're taking this team lightly. I don't think. I think that's just an excuse. I think when the lights go on and the helmet's strapped up, I don't think that stuff matters. I think it's preparation of getting a solid game plan, sticking to that game plan, executing that game plan, putting kids in the right spots or adults, men in the right spots, and finding ways to win. I think all that other stuff is just bullshit. I think it's just coach speak. I think people just love to talk about it. Because, again, football games are only played once a week, so there's a lot of downtime. It's not like they're playing every day. So they got to think of something to write about. And there's a lot of people who get paid writing about the NFL, doing little podcasts about the NFL, and just addicted to it like some kind of crackhead. I did a good job of weaning myself off of baseball, but I don't think I could ever wean myself off the NFL. Baseball game, five hours watching it. The NFL is not much better. Saturday is such a better day of sports as a football fan for myself. I'll watch college games all day. It's got better energy than the NFL. So much of what they do, just the no fun league. I digress. Got about 10 minutes left. I want to see what else I can get in. NCAA, it's a NCAA heavy show. I guess they have an attendance problem. 6% attendance is down in total Division I. FBS teams down 3% from last year, and 6% from the year before that, 2011. I don't think it's a great mystery. I think it's the HDTV effect. And I think the fact that they don't serve beer at college games is a huge mistake. Who are they fooling? Who are they trying to accomplish? Can't adults drink beer? This is America, for fuck's sake. And what you're starting to see, and I think more and more, this is a key that teams will start picking up on. They're going to have scoreboards, and I think a lot of them do, and they have areas where just tweets and all types of social media stuff can get posted. So people can see that. Because I think people like sitting at home. I know I do, sitting at home with the Kindle or your tablet in hand, watching multiple games. Not having to worry about some clown acting the fool next to you, getting maced. Or somebody comes in on the opposing team fan. There's always one of them. The guy's going to be the loudest jackass in there. It's just uncomfortable. I like the controlled environment. So NCAA is having a legitimate problem. I think that's going to be a trickle-down effect. I think you're going to start seeing that in the NFL as well. If you haven't already. Shit, I'd love to sit and watch Red Zone. All day, which I did. Damn hip acting up because I've been sitting on the couch watching baseball games and college football games and preparing for our next week's opponent. What are you going to do? I don't think I could live without it. I think I'd have withdrawals. What other games? Pittsburgh with a win over Baltimore in 1916. I remember the days when that game actually meant something. I'm going to see Troy Palamalu flying around. It seems like he's at 100% again. Tried to jump over the line and block a kick today. Almost did it, but timed it up wrong. Pittsburgh does not have one running back with over 100 yards total for the season. Todd Haley. Kansas City 17, Houston 16. Kansas City's finding a way. Not turning the ball over. Running the ball. Playing good defense. Playing field position game. All these teams love to get in shotgun and spread it around, quote unquote. Not the right policy for everybody. Getting back to my game this week. We pin them at the one on a great punt. They come out. They're a spread team. Never go under center. Shotgun. Play action on third down. Shotgun in the end zone. Oh, thank you. Blitzed off the edge. Sack. Fumble. Jump on it. Touchdown. Put us up seven. Get the ball back. Get another turnover. Grind them. Take five minutes off the clock. Score a touchdown. Ball game. Look at quote unquote spread offenses. Hurry up offenses. They do have their merits, but they have flaws. And those flaws are that those guys that have really die hard by it, they never come out of shotgun. They can never. Grind it out when they need to both coming out of their own end zone. And red zones a problem to. Got to be able to go into center and run some place. Even if it's quarterback sneak. You got to be able to come on a center because the ball disappears. You snap the ball into someone's legs and he pulls it out. The ball disappears and shotgun. Everybody sees the ball ball comes straight up. So guys can tee off on it. So there are holes in that shotgun run game scenario, even though I do like it. Got to be able to come on a center once in a while. Green Bay, Cleveland. Green Bay with the win. And they're terrible throwback uniforms. I don't know who would like something like that. Jermichael Finley just came back from a concussion. Might have gotten another one. That would be a shame. Jermichael Finley's a great player. Might be it for him. San Fran 31, Tennessee 17. Stands to reason. Pomona's own Delaney Walker getting the end zone for the Tennessee Titans, though. What else have we got? Washington 45, Chicago 41. Strap it on, guys. Here it comes. IG3 come fast again. ESPN going to be all over him. Is IG3 back? Yep. He's back. I think he's good. I think this heat is going to be good. He's a good guy. This running back they got is good. Guy seems to find a way to get in the end zone. Devin Hester in that game with the kick return. This is 19th career return. Ties Deion Sanders for the most old time. Jay Cutler hurt. Washington gives up another return. It's the third game in a row. Third game in a row that you have a touchdown on special teams. ESPN previews. The game. Washington special teams need to be more special. The necessary evil. Why can't somebody come out and have a decent alternative? Why can't CNN have their own sports network? Maybe they did. Maybe they have. I haven't seen it. But someone needs to other than Fox. ESPN just dominates and they're sickening to watch. Quick, let me dive in the twit bag. We only got a few minutes. At Athens, Greece, what's the future of Mark Richt at Georgia? Well, I think with this year, he has the injury excuse built in, which I think is a valid excuse. I think Georgia has been dinged up all year. I think he's a likable guy. I think he has them playing at national championship level almost every year. I think the future of Mark Richt, Mark Richt is, he's going to be there as long as he wants to. I mean, what are they going to do? Who are they going to go out and get that's really going to, quote unquote, turn them around? They're perennial. The last few years, they're always in the top 20. They're always making a run. Shit, last year, they were three yards away from winning against Alabama and going national title. So I don't think Mark Richt has anything to worry about. But who knows? The guy always looks like he's burnt out anyway. The guy always looks like he's on Valium or something. Asking announcers, oh, what did you think? But I think he's solidified. I don't think anything's going to happen to him. The thing is, what do I know? I picked the Falcons to go to the Super Bowl. Last Twitbag question. At Tim Bafo, you're running a network. Give me your all-time dream team lineup for pregame show and in-game booth. It's a fantastic question. Couldn't have made up a better one myself. So I thought about it. All right, here's my host. I'm going to go with Jim Nance. I like him as a straight newsman. Not a lot of flash. You know, he's not trying to get cute like Berman. He's not a complete degenerate fool like Brent Musburger. James Brown tries to get a little bit too cute. Kurt Mandefe was right there, too. But I'm taking Jim Nance as my host. I like the straight newsman. Just the facts. Here's my studio crew. Number one, Tom Jackson. Even though he works for the mothership, gotta love the guy's passion. And he looks like he could still go. Even he's probably in his 60s. I like Tom Jackson. Tom Jackson's on my crew. First pick. Second pick, Howie Long. A man's man. Second pick, Tom Jackson. Career Raider. Hall of Famer. Classically handsome. Intelligent. Bostonian. Got it all. Howie Long. Went to Villanova. I need a coach on this panel. Much as I hate the Cowboys, Jimmy Johnson. I like Jimmy Johnson. Guy's done it at both levels. Did it at the college level? Did it at the pro level? A legitimate character. Funny. It's funny how these old coaches, once they get the network broadcasting gig, they never go back. Jimmy Johnson, although he's probably over the hill as far as that goes. Gruden, never go back. Mariucci. Tony Dungy. Brian Billick. Eric Mangini. Any of these guys. I mean, that's a great job. Being an analyst compared to being a head coach. What's the pressure? So people attack you on the Twittersphere if they don't like you. Speaking of which, Dan Deardorff drives me up a freaking wall. I can't even listen to Deardorff anymore. I should just mute the games, get on the internet, and listen to friggin... Well, it's not even Gil Santos anymore. I think he retired. Now it's Scott Zolak. I don't know who else. I haven't listened to the games this year. But anybody's better than Deardorff. I need a quarterback on that panel. I think the Storm and Mormon himself, Steve Young. Steve Young's got a passion for the game. One of the all-time greats. Tremendous skill set. Throwing the ball, running the ball. Seems like an affable man. Even though he's Mormon. Hey. And I'm bringing back Jimmy the Greek. I need Jimmy the Greek on my squad. I need the picks. Plus, I'd love to see Jimmy the Greek debate Tom Jackson. Let's go to the booth. Gotta go with... Gotta stay with the gold. Outstanding. Madden Summerall. I want to bring Hank Stram, former coach in for the Chiefs. He was great as well. He was a toupee. 47, toss power trap. 47, toss power trap, baby. The mentor, Hank Stram. Three-man booth. If Madden Summerall would let him do that, because they got, obviously, they got right of first refusal. And my sideline reporter, Susie Culver. Who else? So damn good. Damn kissable. Great website, by the way. Kissing Susie Culver. That's about it for me. Follow us at Twitter. At Hajjads LA. Email Hajjads LA at gmail.com. That's about it for me. I may not be here next week. If the Red Sox look to close it out. I'll tell you what. 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